Between 1967 and 1979, Gold Key published 61 STAR TREK comics. Today's fans often overlook
these stories, forgetting that they are part of the STAR TREK universe. While far from canon for a number
of reasons, these adventures are every bit as exciting and fascinating as their television counterparts.
Further, due to the age and demand of these thirty-plus year old comics, they are expensive and hard to find.
This site was created to give everyone a chance to enjoy these stories again.

This site was originally created by devoted fan Mark Lookabaugh, and many visitors have enjoyed
the Gold Key Trek comics via his web site. Mr. Lookabaugh has since found it impossible to continue hosting the
site in his directory. I have been a constant visitor and champion of his original site and when I discovered
that it had been removed I wrote to him. He gave me his blessing to take his site and resurrect it as I saw fit.
He has been a champion of my STAR TREK sites and felt I could do justice to the material. I hope that
old visitors to his site and new visitors alike will find this a fun and interesting place to learn about these
classic tales. Enjoy!

Curt Danhauser,March 9, 1999.

Comics. List of all 61 issues of the Gold Key
STAR TREK series. Given for each issue is a thumbnail cover image, the issue date and the cover
blurb. The page provides links to the pages within this site that are dedicated to each individual issue.

Characters. Pictures
and descriptions of the main Enterprise crew and some other characters seen in the Gold Key STAR TREK comics.
This page is the place to go if you are curious how the television characters appeared in comic form.

Vehicles. This page features a
description and picture of most of the spacecraft and
flying vehicles seen in the sixty-one issues of the Gold Key series of STAR TREK comics. Included are
images of the comic version of ships seen on the television series such as the Enterprise herself, and Klingon
and Romulans vessels.

Lifeforms. This page features images and
descriptions of the thirty or so alien (non-human) races seen in the sixty-one issues of the Gold Key series of
STAR TREK comics. Included are images of the comic versions of well-known aliens seen on the television series
such as Vulcans, Klingons, Andorians and Romulans.

Starfleet Psycho-FilesA page featuring the Starfleet Personnel files for Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. These were created as new material that was included in volumes one and three of the the 1976-77 Enterprise Logs reprints editions of Gold Key STAR TREK comics.

Price Guide.
This page gives the prices of each issue according to the 2014 Overstreet Price Guide and
a brief treatment of how the comics have increased in value over the years.

Reprint Editions.
This page gives information about the various reprint editions of Gold Key STAR TREK issues that have been published including those by Western Publishing in the 1970s, Checker in the 2000's and the recent IDW Publishing volumes .

British Annuals.
The Gold Key comics were not available in England. But British fans were able
to enjoy the stories in the form of Annuals published in Great Britain by World Distributors
(Manchester) Limited. This page gives information about the several British Annuals.

Guest Book.
A place for visitors to this site to leave their thought and view comments left by other visitors. Unfortunately, I am no longer accepting submittals to the Guest Book due to the amount of Spam submittals.

With the Map below, jump straight to any of the 61 comic pages:

A Book About the History of STAR TREK Comics

Star Trek: A Comic Book History by Alan J. Porter

Now for the first time the complete history of the Star Trek universe in comic books and newspaper strips from all over the world. Written by pop-culture historian Alan J. Porter, author of the bestselling James Bond: The History of the Illustrated 007, this book will be the definitive history on the subject. Nine information-packed chapters detailing the history of Star Trek in comic books and newspaper strips from the first Gold Key comic books, to the English newspaper strip, to the Marvel and DC titles, to the present day. Exhaustively covers all publications of the entire Star Trek universe. Includes creator interviews, unpublished artwork and a detailed checklist. Published to coincide with the release of the new Star Trek movie. Boldly goes where no book has gone before!

Alan J. Porter has been a regular writer on various aspects of popular culture for over fifteen years. With magazine articles on comics, music and the movies published in Europe, Australia, Canada and the US.

He is the author of "BATMAN: The Unofficial Collectors Guide," (Schiffer Books), "BEFORE THEY WERE BEATLES: The Early Years 1956-1960," (Xlibris), JAMES BOND: the history of the illustrated 007," and "STAR TREK: A comics history." (both for Hermes Press.) He has also contributed to over 10 other book titles.

Latest Additions!

March 2, 2018: I added information about the reprint volumes of Gold Key STAR TREK comics by IDW Publishing to the Reprints page. There are currently five volumes which reprint the first 30 stories from Issue #1 through #31.

I also updated the Checker Reprints section of the Reprints page page to reflect that Checker ultimately never published Volumes 6 and 7 as they had originally advertised.

June 13, 2016:
I made a long-overdue update to the prices on the Price Guide page based on the 2014 edition of the Overstreet Price Guide.

June 5, 2009: I added a description and an image of 21st-century Earth Ion-Impulse Drive Ships to the Ships page.

May 21, 2007: Added "From Sputnik to Warp Drive: A Brief History of Interstellar Travel" to the Starfleet Psycho-Files page. This was new material created for Volume 4 of the reprint editions of the 1970's.

December 18, 2003:
Checker Book Publishing Group has licensed with Paramount to reprint the Gold Key STAR TREK comics. They'll be coming out with "Star Trek: The Key Collection Volume 1"
(ISBN 0-9741664-4-8, 180 full-color pages, 6 3/4" x 10 1/4", $22.95) in June 2004.
The volume collects issues 1 - 8.
I added this upcoming book to the Reprints page along with a cover image.

July 6, 2002:
Added to the Reprints page a section about the two 1978 STAR TREK issues of the Whitman Dynabrite reprint series.

June 6, 2002:
Updated the prices on the Price Guide page based on
the 2002 edition of the Overstreet Price Guide.